The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1887-04-14
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New York city has 1000 landlords, who
| collect $40, OO0,O 600 rent.
The carry ing trade on the great iakeSA
! showing extraordinary activity.
The production Of anthra cite coal for 10"
| is now expected to equal 34,OO0,OO COO tons.
There have been 6,4O6 strikes reported
! throughout the United States since March L
seyenty-four of the paintings in the A. 1.
Stewart collection brought at auction w.
| 125.
The Indian popula tion Of Canada numbers
| 124. 74s. There are 5, sos pupils in the Indian
| schools.
The United States imported from Canada
| during 1886 s2,5S7,O 900 worth OF fish, agairs'
| SO, $780, 600 in 1885.
The Delaware pe~ach-growers expect to nam
! die over 5000, 600 baskets the coming season.
| and New Jersey over 100000 baskets.
The foreign exports of the United States Tor
| January were valued at $40, 719, 424, a gain OF
| $14,Ol5, 300 over the same NORTH In 1880.
In round numbers, there are in circulation
| to-day ten millions of one dollar silver cerln-
| Gates, six millions of twos and three millpns
| of fves.
l luc OIL Sunl uCHOoibSo
| the United States is stated at 81, O95, ~, ~, OF
| which New York and Massachusetts, furnish
over 500, OOO, 900, or more than two-thrds,
| while of the 5000 600 depositors thest Two
| states supply nearly a like proportion.
During the past winter, which was an I'M
| usually severe one at sea, the fish commission
| succeeded In Matching 35,0OO,OO0 cod Eggs,
| bringing the young up by hand till abe TO
! feed themselves, and turning them loose into
! the ocean. This "crop'' will be up four or
five years hence.
The exports of wheat and corn from all
! American points and Montreal from Sept! to
| March 5, 1867, were IS, 591, 900 bushels wheat
and q, 425, 90 bushels corn; in 1oo5Sd 3o,-
| OO2, 900 bushels wheat and 32,O96,OOo bushels
| corn, and in 1878 9, SO, Ga, 600 bushels wheat
and 80, 100, 900 bushels corn.
In February there were "A, 794 packages OF
butter received at New York, against U,263
| same month last year. Of cheese there were
| 81, 132 boxes received, as against 1851 inllSS0-
| The receipts of eggs were 1894 barrels and
52, O26 cases, against LISA barrels and {, l69
cases last February a year ago.
Arthur Rose, a colored citizen of Cincinnati,
O., has begun a S1O,O 900 damage suit against
I y fdTItIl III loi - LHO OhS -
! a New Coon in Town. and pointing her finger
at him while he was occupying a front seat in
| the gallery. He thinks his reputation was
damaged by so much disagreeable publicity.
Capt. Louis Vogelsang, while dredging with
, his oyster schooner on Bodkin bar, at the
! mouth of Patapsco river, Maryland, brought
| I'D a common stone china plate on which were
| three oysters as if ready to be eaten. The
/ oysters had attached themselves to the plate,
as had also an unwholesOme quantity of mud.
In a recent address Norman j. Colman, COM
missioner of agriculture, states that 100000
300 q year is expended abroad by this country
for sugar which ought to be produced at home.
With our population doubling every twenty
i've years, he estimated that 100 years from
now our sugar bill will amount to $1,000, co.,
900 yearly.
A colored girl fresh from the sunny south
was given some ice cream by her employer in
New York the other day. She ate it slowly
and with a relish, and refused to take any
supper. Her mistress expressed surprise
when the reply came, ''Golly, missus, couldn't
put no supper board dat puddin' Want de
taste to stay dar."
4 young lady at Brantford saw some boys
perform the difficult feat of placing their heels
around their neck. A day or so later the
young lady was missed, and on search
being made she was found in her chamber,
; PROSTATE on the floor, with both heels around
| her neck, and utterly unable to get them loose.
! She was so upset that she would have died be-
| fore calling.
The Criminal club of Yale college, an or.
! gaDization composed of students who have
| deed or other. held it's first annual banquet
on Monday night, covers being laid for TWEEN
%ty-four. The menu was most elaborate, and
the speeches sparkled with humorous reminis-
cences in which the New Haven police force
largely figured.
| A novel rat-exterminatOr was used with
good effect by the man who runs the dynamOs
liz an electric light works at Birmingham,
Conn.,, a few days ago. He scattered pieces Of
meat on the floor and connected them by
wires with the dynanos, and dead rats were
found by the hundreds the next morning.
They nibbled at the meat and were instantly
killed by the electric current.
Mrs. Kretscher, a German lady of Bridge
port, Conn, gave birth recently to a male in
FAINT which has an elephants head and in
place of a nose a short trunk. The mouth
and lips protrude line those of an elephant.
The child weighs about nine pounds and can
be fed only with a spoon. The mother visited
the circus winter quarters during the past
winter and was terribly frightened by the
elephants.
John C. Emo is under two indictments for
misapplying funds of his bank to the amount
of nearly S4,001,000 but the sums which he
stole have been made up to the last cent by
his aged father, whose record has been one of
the most honorable and successful in the his
tory of New York commerce. Young Emo
longs tor the society of his old comrades, but
the father cannot buy off indictments, espe-
cially when they are in the United States
courts. An appeal is therefore being made to
President Cleveland for his interference in
favor Of the exile, and it is claimed that there
are reasons to suppose that the appeal will
not be UNDECIDED. With the case in the
United States Court once dropped, it Will be
an easy matter to get the state indictments
oct OF the way.